Actually, it might really be good timing. Retail space is cheap right now, and there are probably a ton of overqualified IT and Engineering folks out of work who would be glad to get any job right now, even in retail.

The time scale GPS uses is basically the UTC timescale that was in effect when the GPS system went first live (1980?). This is the time that GPS broadcasts, forever and ever.
Along with that time, there is a broadcast of the current offset between GPS time and the current UTC time. This offset goes up by 1 on every leap second since the GPS system first went live.
So as long as the receiver is getting all the GPS broadcasts, it will always know what the correct UTC time is.